Real Life Network is where we do Christian news and biblical worldview analysis without pretending that evil is “complicated.” Today on the Daniel Cohen Show, we are exposing one of the most dangerous engines of the Israel Hamas conflict: the indoctrination of children. From UNRWA-linked classrooms to Palestinian Authority textbooks and Hamas media, kids are taught that killing Jews is virtue and dying in jihad is glory. This is not “culture.” This is not “politics.” This is spiritual and moral corruption aimed at the next generation, and it has consequences for Israel, for the West, and for America.

What Palestinian Children Are Being Taught and Who Funds It

Show me what a society teaches its children, and I will show you its future. We opened with a kindergarten ceremony in the Palestinian territories where five-year-olds dressed like junior terrorists staged a mock execution of a Jew, while parents cheered and teachers applauded. That is not “performance art.” That is training.

And it is not isolated. This ideology is baked into the curriculum. In some materials documented by researchers who analyze textbooks and school programming, anti-Jewish messaging appears across subjects. Science lessons turn into propaganda. History lessons erase Jewish identity. Even math problems can treat “martyrs” like a scoreboard, conditioning children to see death as achievement.

When a child is trained to hate, the problem is not the child. The problem is the adults and the system that formed them.

Here is the part that should sober Americans. International aid pipelines exist, and UN-branded institutions have operated in these areas for decades. If you are a taxpayer, you have every right to ask what is being funded, what is being tolerated, and why the loudest activists in the West never seem to demand accountability from the systems that radicalize children.

This is also where Christians need discernment. Compassion is not denial. Compassion is telling the truth about what harms children, even when the truth is unpopular. If you want peace, you do not start by teaching preschoolers that Jews are the enemy. You start by teaching children to build, to learn, to honor life, and to pursue truth.

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Indoctrination Produces Violence and It Does Not Stay Overseas

What does this kind of education produce? It produces a society where martyrdom is celebrated, where terrorism is normalized, and where the human heart is trained to dehumanize. The clearest evidence is not theoretical. We saw October 7. We saw the celebration of violence. We saw the fruit.

One story shared in the broader public conversation captures the moral clarity: a woman who received medical care from Israelis, was educated, and still chose to target the very hospital that treated her. When asked about it later, she described the attempted mass murder as “almost tasting paradise” and said she would do it again. That is not a political grievance. That is a worldview.

You cannot build peace on a curriculum that teaches children to glorify murder.

Now bring that home to the West. Indoctrination does not remain “over there” when communities and ideological networks exist “over here.” In the United States and Europe, we have seen hatred laundered through polite language: “justice,” “liberation,” “decolonization,” “globalize the intifada.” Many of the loudest voices chanting these phrases cannot even define what they are chanting. But the ideology behind it is not confused. It knows exactly what it wants.

And it targets young people. It targets campuses. It targets social media feeds. It targets school environments where administrators are terrified of being called names, so they surrender the moral ground without a fight. When you normalize Islamist symbolism as “educational” and you excuse calls for violence as “context,” you are not being tolerant. You are being naive.

Let me say this carefully and clearly. Not every Muslim believes this. Not every Arab family teaches this. There are courageous reformers and courageous dissidents. There are Arabs who reject jihadist ideology. There are Muslims who have paid dearly for opposing extremists. Christians should pray for them, support reformers, and refuse the lazy lie that the only options are “hate” or “silence.”

But we also cannot ignore what is openly preached, openly printed, and openly performed for children in certain environments. If a Christian school staged a mock execution of Muslims, it would be shut down immediately. If a synagogue taught kids to chant about killing Christians, it would make national headlines for months. The standard cannot be selective.

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What Must Change for Peace, Reform, and Protection

So what do we do?

First, tell the truth. Stop calling indoctrination “education.” Stop calling a death cult “resistance.” Stop treating antisemitism as “complex.” Evil hides behind confusion, and the job of believers is to bring light.

Second, demand curriculum reform. If “denazification” was necessary after World War II because a society was trained to hate Jews, then de-radicalization is necessary anywhere children are trained to hate Jews today. That means auditing textbooks, removing martyrdom propaganda, rejecting dehumanization, and replacing it with real education that honors life and tells the truth about history.

Third, stop outsourcing moral accountability to institutions that refuse to clean house. If an organization operates schools and cannot guarantee that children are not being taught to hate and kill, it has forfeited trust. Oversight is not oppression. Oversight is responsibility.

Fourth, protect kids in the West. Public schools should never become staging grounds for ideological grooming. Parents have a right to know what is happening in classrooms, what programs are being invited onto campus, and what messages are being normalized. Freedom does not include the freedom to groom children into hatred.

Fifth, pray for transformation. Yes, pray for Israel’s security and for justice. Pray for Jewish students facing hatred. Pray for leaders to have courage. But also pray for Arab and Muslim children caught in this machinery. They did not write the textbooks. They did not build the system. Many of them are victims of adults who stole their innocence.

The only future worth building is one where children are taught to value life, not to worship death.

Proverbs tells us to train up a child in the way he should go. That is a warning and a promise. If you train a child to hate, hatred grows. If you train a child to tell the truth and honor God, truth grows. That is why this fight is not only geopolitical. It is spiritual.

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